Ossie Davis Quotes
I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I'm very open-minded.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
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I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.
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I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.
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I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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I wish we had been more organized and determined with respect to carving out the time that we needed to write.
